Dhiraj Mukherjee
Set your organisation up for AI-driven success with Dhiraj Mukherjee, keynote speaker on leadership and artificial intelligence. Shazam co-founder and investor in 250+ tech startups including OpenAI, Dhiraj advises UBS, Unilever, and PwC on building adaptable organisations. Named among Europe's Top 50 tech entrepreneurs by the Financial Times.
London, United Kingdom
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Since Shazam's sale, Dhiraj has invested in more than 250 AI and technology start-ups, including OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT. He has an MBA from Stanford Business School and advises corporations including UBS, Eli Lilly, Unilever, and PwC on building organisations that embrace adaptability as a core competency. Previously, Dhiraj held senior roles in financial services, technology, and media and entertainment.
Dhiraj's 35 years of company building, combined with his portfolio spanning 250 investments, gives him direct insight into both long-term strategic thinking and practical implementation. He has recently engaged with policymakers and regulators across the Middle East and Asia on building resilient AI ecosystems, including speaking at Fintech Forward Bahrain and participating in the Seoul Future Conference. This positions him as a top voice at the intersection of leadership, policy, and emerging technology.
Audiences learn how to systematically create organisations that learn, evolve, and reinvent themselves rather than react to disruption after it occurs. Dhiraj provides concrete frameworks for embedding adaptability into company culture, along with immediate actions executives can implement. His talks combine practical experience from building an iconic company with first-hand foresight of innovation trends and business models shaping the future.
Book Dhiraj to equip your leadership team with strategies for thriving in an AI-driven future.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
GenAI has rapidly evolved from experimental to essential for growth in most organisations. This creates a fundamental challenge for leaders to shift from early initiatives to seize the opportunity to scale AI in the enterprise. Drawing on his experience as a founder, investor, and early participant in the AI ecosystem, Dhiraj Mukherjee advocates “AI 2.0”: the shift from pilots to productive deployment across the organisation. Dhiraj helps leaders understand how to make better judgments about where AI truly adds value and how leadership must innovate and evolve as AI becomes a core part of the workplace.
Leaders today are grappling with ever-accelerating technological change, volatile geopolitics, and dramatic business and workforce transformation. This keynote focuses on the leadership skills required to operate in uncertain environments: building foresight, moving beyond rigid planning, and designing organisations that can evolve in real time. Drawing on decades of experience building Shazam through multiple market cycles and advising global organisations, Dhiraj Mukherjee explores how leaders can learn while they lead to transform their businesses. Dhiraj believes the best way to predict the future is to create it, and he shares proven methods for re-inventing business and building lasting success.
Most organisations are still building teams for jobs that won’t exist in a few years’ time. Technology is reshaping how we work, and the next generation of talent requires new skills to redefine the workforce. In this keynote, Dhiraj Mukherjee focuses on the leadership challenge of pairing future talent with emerging technology. Rather than optimising for specific skills or tools, he argues that organisations must rethink how they identify potential, develop people, and build teams to transform the workplace. The focus is practical and grounded, helping leaders make better decisions about who they hire, how they lead, and how they prepare their workforce for jobs that don’t yet fully exist.
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